Hi everyone, and Happy Easter to all who celebrate! We had high winds and hail/very heavy rain squalls here. interspersed with bright sunshine, as the southern fringes of "Storm Dave" passed over, so the illustration is creative commons generic doodles because the garden was feeling sorry for itself!
Feel free to use this post for any check ins you want - and perhaps we should also discuss a future session, since we usually run one from May to August.
I set myself some goals last week, so I will check in!
ReplyDeleteSELF-CARE: all process goals, for three term time months:
a) intentional movement 20x3 or 15x4 2 x 20
b) some kind of making (art or craft) x2 no
c) something gently social x2 yes
d) read at least one chapter (of fiction) every day yes
e) ask the decluttering person (who should be coming next week...) to help me take a digital photo suitable for applying for passport renewal yes!
IMPROVING MY ENVIRONMENT:
a) 75% of weekly list of chores 90% (thanks mostly to decluttering session)
b) sketch and measurements for the shelving in living space no because we couldn't find a tape measure anywhere. I own at least two but of course they were both in "really safe easy to remember places" so utterly elusive
c) list for decluttering person (turning out all the kitchen cupboards is the main job on the list) yes, and we did nearly all of it
TEACHING AND ADMIN:
a) check over lists for after Spring Break (we have three teaching weeks left before the assessment period) no
b) read boring papers for stupid internal REF grading panel. GRRR. Do not like.yes, and attended said panel. None of the papers were very good either.
RESEARCH.
a) continue to progress modelling work - write up what we did so far, see what the naughty laptop came up with this time. no and yes - and it was naughty so now it is doing some tests to try and work out what is going on
b) Nag everyone about the revise and resubmit paper and share new deadline yes, and spent several productive hours with it
c) complete lots-of-pages grant review (sigh. necessary, but oh, a dispiriting prospect) yes, and it wasn't as bad as I expected
I didn't do any of next week's planning yet because I slept badly last week, and the Head of School decided to play an "April Fool's Prank" which completely failed and Stressed Me Out (he tried to come up with a "ridiculous" set of requirements for the new workload allocation, but they were actually quite plausible if you'd actually read the paperwork and been to the briefing meeting, so I (and others) were taken in, stressed, and did a fair bit of discussing and working over writing requests for clarification etc.). Thursday the car went in for the wiper repair (finally!) so I was at the garage for a while with that, and then played D&D, then Friday the decluttering happened and after all that I was very over stimulated so needed to wind down and didn't fall asleep until 4am... anyway. No goals for next week yet. Maybe tomorrow. But it is a Bank Holiday...